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Saving us from the aliens

We used to think life in the next tribe was alien and must be fought and killed, and we thought life in the next village was alien, then life in the next county, then life in the next country, then life in the next religion, then life in the next ideology, but we are running out of aliens and can only find them in the movies.

The very idea of aliens is a throwback to premodern times when we believed demons caused disease and mental illness and so we needed a Saviour to drive out the demons.

We used to think life in the next tribe was alien and must be fought and killed, and we thought life in the next village was alien, then life in the next county, then life in the next country, then life in the next religion, then life in the next ideology, but we are running out of aliens and can only find them in the movies.

The very idea of aliens is a throwback to premodern times when we believed demons caused disease and mental illness and so we needed a Saviour to drive out the demons.

Who, we ask, in our primordial mind, will save us from the aliens?

This brings up a good question: if we have contact with aliens, is it guaranteed they will be the equivalent of Space-Mongol-Hordes?
What if they are the equivalent of Galactic Traveling Salesmen? Will we be suckered or run them out of town on a rocket?

"Love never needs time. But friendship always needs time. More and more and more time, up to long past midnight." -- The Crime of Captain Gahagan

This brings up a good question: if we have contact with aliens, is it guaranteed they will be the equivalent of Space-Mongol-Hordes?
What if they are the equivalent of Galactic Traveling Salesmen? Will we be suckered or run them out of town on a rocket?

Fortunately the speed of light and the size of the universe make an encounter with conscious aliens impossible.

The reality is we only encounter aliens in our imagination.

This is a site devoted to the psyche so we should ask, who are these aliens hiding in our psyche?

We used to think life in the next tribe was alien and must be fought and killed, and we thought life in the next village was alien, then life in the next county, then life in the next country, then life in the next religion, then life in the next ideology, but we are running out of aliens and can only find them in the movies.

The very idea of aliens is a throwback to premodern times when we believed demons caused disease and mental illness and so we needed a Saviour to drive out the demons.

The periodic table has been created by exploding stars uniformly throughout the universe.

So nothing in the universe is alien.

And just as there is no alien life on Earth: every living thing for four billion years is related to every other living thing, there is no alien life in the universe. We are all related through the periodic table and exploding stars. Who would have guessed?

I've been called a criminal, a terrorist, and a threat to the known universe. But everything you were told is a lie. The truth is, they've taken our freedom, our home, and our future. The time has come for all humanity to take a stand...

The concept of the alien is not represented the same way across sci-fi. Star Trek and Star Wars both feature humans as villains as often as they feature aliens. The difference between the two is that Star Trek's worldview is scientific, while the Star Wars worldview is mysticism (it flounders when it loses the mystical element).